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$\"\"$ <\/a>Here is my new e-book, available as a Kindle book<\/a>, and a Nook Book<\/a>. 10 Ways Christians Fail To Be Christian and Other Such Essays<\/em> comprises revisions of twenty-seven of my best\/most popular blog posts on the general subject of its title (being also the title of the first piece in the book, doncha know). The price is $2.99. I\u2019m proud of it. (And I\u2019m extremely grateful to Dan Wilkinson<\/a> who, when I\u2019d about given up ever getting the manuscript for the book properly formatted, stepped in to save the day. Dan is the cyberjedi who volunteered to build and maintain both the ThruWay Christian website<\/a> and forum.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The cover of 10 Ways<\/em> was designed by Lisa Salazar,<\/a> who also did the cover of 7 Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships,<\/a> as well as the logo for ThruWay Christians.<\/a><\/p>\n

Um \u2026 so I\u2019ll just jump in and say this. I really want to thank \u2026 well, my readers. So many of you write to tell me you like my stuff, and leave the insanely great comments on my blog, and share and \u201clike\u201d my posts on Facebook, and all that sort of thing. And for this past couple of weeks, while I\u2019ve been combing through the content of this book to make sure everything\u2019s all beautiful and correct\u2014and especially during this past week, what with the Wallis affair<\/a> making me forget to blink\u2014I\u2019ve really been aware<\/em> of the value of the encouragement and love you guys send me. Because of you guys I always feel like I\u2019m on this big team<\/em> of ours that\u2019s just \u2026 out<\/em> here, fighting, loving, trying, believing. And it\u2019s been painful, because lately I\u2019ve just been too busy to respond properly (if at all)\u00a0 to your emails and blog comments. So I think maybe I\u2019ve been especially aware of my love for you guys, because I haven\u2019t been able to process<\/em> that love via the responses and little exchanges with you that always mean so much to me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thank you. If there were words to express how much your spirit means to me and sustains me through what I do every day, I\u2019d use them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"